Adhesive plaster or tape roller



April 4,1925. 1,533,s02 E.'JOHNSON ADHESIVE PLAsTEfi OR TAPE ROLLER Filed NOV. 24, 1923 INVENTOR Edward JZATLSDTL ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

UNITED: STATEd PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD JOHNSON, OF NORTH PELHAM, YQRK, ASSIGNOR TO MEINECKE & COIJI- PA'NY, 0F NFAK YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ADHESIVE PLASTER OR- TAIPE ROLLER.

Application filed November 24, 1923. Serial No. 676,741.

To r/ZZ whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, Enwann JoHNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Pelham, in the county of Vestchester and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adhesive Plaster or Tape Rollers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises an adhesive tape roller, and is particularly adapted to hold varying widths of adhesive plaster.

During surgical operations, and in accident or emergency cases, the surgeon frequently needs strips of plaster or tape varying in width according to the exigencies of each particular operation or accident, and it is desirable that he have such strips so arranged that they can be handed to him as quickly and conveniently as possible.

At present there is no suitable apparatus for holding and winding different widths of adhesive tape. The usual custom is for hospitals to purchase adhesive tape 12 inches wide, because the larger width is so nuch more economical than buying adhesive tape on spools in the various widths. These large 12 inch rolls of tape are then torn into strips, varying in size from one to four inches and wound by hand on wooden sticks or glass rods. As these wooden sticks or glass rods are loose, not only is it difficult to strip and roll the adhesive, but much valuable time is lostduring an operation or emergency accident in detaching a suitable width of adhesive tape.

With the object of improving the tech nique employed at present, I have devised a roller carried in a frame which may be secured either to a table or a wall, and the roller carries any required number of removable spools of varying sizes for holding adhesive tape. The invention is more fully shown and described in detail in the following specifications and drawings in which Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of my improved device.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.-

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through one of the spools and the roller taken on the line XX of Fig. 1.

The device consists of a practically 1" shaped frame at made preferably of metal having feet 5 at each end containing holes 6 for screws tosecure it to a table or wall or the feet 5 may be clamped on to a table by any well-known clamping device not shown. Running the entire length of the frame and through each end thereof is ournaled a shaft 7 having a handle 8 secured at one end thereof for rotating the shaft. On

the shaft is mounted a series of spools 9' which may he slipped on and off the shaft 7 when it is withdrawn from the frame 4; by sliding it out of lateral slots located in the legs of the frame. A pair of detents 10 the one being adjacent each slot are pivoted to the frame. These detents when the shaft is in place are swung over to coact with the shaft thus preventing it from slippin out of the slots in the frame. The shaft has a longitudinal groove 11. and tongues 12 formed in the core of the spools interlock with the groove. The purpose of this is to hold the spool in a fixed position on the shaft 7 when it revolves for winding on the tape. \Vhen in use the tape 13 is pulled off by the operator and goes over the top of the longitudinal conveXed bar constituting the top of the frame t as shown in Fig. 3.

It will thus be seen that my invention comprises a device, carrying compactly a number of spools of adhesive materialvarying from a half inch in width to any desired width. Needless to say other material than adhesive tape, such as gauze, bandages, etc.,

can be used on the spools and by reason of on the cores of the spools or other means may be adopted for holding the spools in a fixed position on the shaft I claim An adhesive plaster or tape roller comprising a frame having a convexed top bar with a pair of legs each provided with a slot, a shafthaving a crank mounted thereon journaled in the slots to key a series of tape carrying bobbins for removal from one end of the shaft the tape being made to unwind over the bar, and a detent swingingly con-e nected to the frame adjacent each slot coacting with the shaft to prevent accidental withdrawal thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

EDWARD JOHNSON. 

